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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1907
Page
2
The article notes Mrs. Roosevelt dresses boldly and supports arts and relief groups. She aims to leave White House annals as the most intelligent collector of presidential-era china, digging for pieces used by past administrations.
The U.S. government intends to establish a central federal identification bureau in this city. The Department of Justice will supervise the new registry, collecting photographs Bertillon measurements and fingerprint sheets from prisons nationwide. Criminologists have long urged a central database of federal offenders to track repeat lawbreakers.
The article outlines a federal effort to centralize criminal records in Washington. Bertillon measurements photographs and fingerprints of convicts will be kept at the central bureau to track habitual offenders. Indictments and status of prisoners will be monitored, with notices to prosecutors and judges before hearings.
City whispers tell of a crow near the White House grounds claimed as a weather augur. The bird, residing in a hollow elm toward the Perth front, allegedly warned of a moist Easter. Policemen ignore him, but some workers recall the crow’s long tenure and effect on officials’ headgear.
A fragment reports Secretary Taft did not attend church while in Washington and that local ministers in Wheaton inquired about his church connection. Some friends say he is a Protestant, others that he is an Episcopalian, but there is no clarity on his regular attendance when in the capital.
Two dining companions order dinner by phone and receive raw sirloin steaks instead of rare. The waiter apologizes and explains the mix up, noting the fault lies with the telephone order. The incident amuses the patrons though the waiter is vexed.
Workmen tear down a small stone cemetery watch house once common across the U S The superintendent notes it is among the last in America with Vermont ones remaining These structures were built to deter body snatching a crime now largely obsolete as bodies are legally obtained by physicians
Thomas A. Edison discussed devices to increase gas light brilliance and cut costs in Atlantic City. He noted mantels as bases and shared a hardware dealer anecdote about a woman needing only the “little white shirt” chimney component, not the full set.
In Brussels a lawyer, fed up with constant hammering from a nearby iron foundry, used a phonograph to record a day of noise in his library. He then played the cylinder in court, producing an uproar that matched the forge din and won him the case.
Horace Richardson, long time Indianapolis grocer now retired, receives an unsigned letter from a writer who recalls stealing apples as a girl and offers to repay him 25 cents in stamps for all loss, with a claim they would meet in heaven.
Fragmentary dialogue shows a grim mood as a horse complains of sickness and fatigue. The brief exchange hints at a humorous or anthropomorphic scene with one horse noting the other feels like an automobile. The text is incomplete and reads as a stray snippet.
Alexis Alladin observes American unions powerful, recalling a story from a bride who weeps at leaving George for family, while Henry Simmons’ refusal to buy Mrs Simmons a new dinner gown leads to a strike by district No 4 of the Amalgamated Wives union.
A Bay City Michigan mother reports her daughter suffered a chronic itching rash behind the ears and on the neck face and joints since infancy. After failed treatments a specialist and later Cutiura Remedies she claims the breakout subsided by May 20 1906.
A Virginia lawyer’s death prompts a reflection on misinterpretation of phrases. A messenger rang an old door bell whose silver cord had been severed, prompting the boy to misread the failing signal. The anecdote ends with a humorous exchange about the bell.
A Cleveland grocer recites his experience with Postum Food Coffee claiming coffee withdrawal eased his nerves and appetite. He notes wife’s suggestion led to a successful switch and plans to advise others with nervous or weak conditions to try Postum.
A quoted nugget from the Atlanta Constitution imagines money as infested with seven devils arguing that seventy might be more correct. It laments money’s worry and lack of happiness whether poor or rich, ending with a Dill collector approaching as the speaker climbs to the roof.
Special trains operated by the Chicago Union Pacific and North-Western Line depart in July for coast trips. Low-cost round trips include sleeping car meals and guided companionship. Send for itineraries and fall details to S A Hutchison manager tourist dept 212 Clark Street Chicago. Desert lands made fertile official figures show eight towns settled 1000 miles of branch railways 1267 miles of canals and 47 tunnels across arid regions of the United States irrigation potential 600 million acres with 60 million irrigable for farms.
A London physician faces a dinner party talk on digestion and pains and frets over how to advise. A quip about howling with pain as a response illustrates the humor. A joke about a figure of speech and a mother’s location closes the piece. Garfield Tea promotes health claims in an ad style notice.
A testimonial page cites Mrs Nellie Makham of Buffalo New York describing nervous prostration and relief from Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The advertisement asserts the remedy cures female troubles and urges women to seek Mrs Pinkham's free advice in Lynn Massachusetts.
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